John becktenwalt



(Model.)

J. REGKTENWALT.

BOTTLE STOPPER.

Patented Oct. 20, 1885.

Inventor Witnesses flttorney.

ll'NrTan STATES PATENT @rrTcn.

JOHN REOKTENWVALT, OF BUFFALO, NE\V YORK.

BOTTLE-STOPPER;

rSPLCIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 328,520, dated October 20, 1885.

Application filed July 27, 1885. Serial No. 172,747. (ModeL) To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN REoKrENwALr, of Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements on a Bottle-Stopper; and I do hereby declare that the following description of my said invention, taken in connection with the accompanying sheet of drawings, forms a full, clear, and exact specification, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My present invention has general reference to improvements in bottle-stoppers; and it consists, essentially, in the novel and peculiar combination of parts and details of construction, as hereinafter first fully set forth and described, and then pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings already referred to, which serve to illustrate my said invention more fully, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a portion of a bottle provided with my improved stopper. Fig. 2 is a similar View at right angles to Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an elevation showing the stopper in a position for removal. Fig. 4 is a plan of the double revolving cam and the disk; and Fig. 5 is a similar view of the disk and rubber packing.

Like parts are designated by corresponding letters of reference in all the figures.

A is the usual glass bottle having on its neck the band or fastening B, serving the purpose of the usual neck-wire. This band is preferably produced in malleable metal in the process of casting, and it is provided with two diametricallyopposite pivots b, upon which swivels the bail O. The neck-band B is made U-shaped, and the open ends are con nected together by a short piece of wire, h, twisted together in the usual manner, as clearly shown in the drawings.

The bail O has substantially an U shape inverted, and its parallel members terminate in eyes g, engaging the pivots b on the neckbands B. In the upper portion of the bail there is a socket, e, for the passage of the stem G, formed in one piece with a disk D. In said upper portions are, furthermore, offsets or shoulders c c c", the first pair, 0, of

which engage with a double cam-plate, F, as hereinafter to be referred to.

The disk D, Fig. 5, has two projectinglugs, 2', provided with slotted grooves or notches t, engaging the parallel members of the bail O, as clearly illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, there being on said bail a stop, (1, to limit the downward movement of the said disk. The cam-plate F has two inclining projections, f f, concentric with the central aperture receiving the spindle G of the disk D, and two lugs or handles, a a, by means of which the cam plate is rotated and actuated. On the under side of the disk is provided an elastic stopper-plug, E, which seals the bottle, and which plug may be of any approved construction, and secured to the disk in any desirable manner.

The operation of this device is readily understood from the above description. The stem G,with its disk D and packing E, slides vertically upon the bail and in its socket e. When placed in the position shown in Fig. 1, with the rubber packing E inserted in the bottle, the double inclines ff are capable of engaging the projections c c in the bail 0, so that when said cam-plate is revolved in the proper direction they press the disk and rubber down upon the bottle with a degree of force capable of perfectly sealing the same.

Thelugs a a form stops, when bearing against the bail, to prevent the cam-plate being revolved too far. They are also handles by which the said cam-plate is actuated. When revolved backward, so that the inclined projections ff are disengaged from the projections 0 in the cam G, then the narrow portion F of said cam-plate fits the bail in the depression 0, and the disk D the depression 0, so that the said disk can be brought into a position away from the bottle to allow the stopper and its fastening being swung over out of the way for emptying, filling, or cleaning of the bottle.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new, and desire to secure to me by Letters Patent of the United States- The improved bottle-stopper and fastening hereinbefore described, consisting, essentially,

of a suitable neck-band having pivots b, the In testimony that I claim the foregoing as bail 0, provided with the projections c c and my invention I havehereto set my hand in the 10 depressions c c", and the socket e, the disk presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

D, with its notched projections 1;, and the 5 spindle G, and the double inclined cam-plate JOHN REOKTENWALT' F, revolving around said spindle G, and en- Attest:

{ gaging the projections c c in the bail, substan- MICHAEL J. STARK,

tially as and for the object specified. WILLIE O. STARK. 

